by karamazov on 12/24/20, 6:25 AM with 1091 comments
There are many examples of overhyped releases: Duke Nukem Forever, the Matrix sequels, etc. What got hyped and actually delivered?
by hwestiii on 12/24/20, 6:51 PM
I had attempted to read it and The Odyssey when I was much younger, in middle school, maybe too young, and failed miserably. But as it is always with cultural touchstones, references to it are inescapable, and a few years ago, in my mid 50s I overcame the reluctance accumulated in the intervening time and set out to read the Samuel Butler prose translation of 1898. Most of the translations I'd previously approached were in verse, which is in some ways its own hill to climb when one is customarily a prose reader, so this seemed perfect.
And so it was, and I was bowled over. It was a mind bending experience for me the likes of which I experience much to infrequently as age and experience take their toll on the novelties of youth. I can't say the last work I read I experienced as electrically. For all the stiltedness of epic story telling, the personalities of Agamemnon, Achilles, Zeus, et al are both vivid and convincing; the violence of battle is horrible, electric, and wierdly beautiful in a way that will resonate recognizably with fans Sam Peckinpaugh or Hong Kong action movies. Though the characterizations are far more stereotyped, as befits the age in which it was produced, than modern readers are accustomed to, they still evince a polish that rises above conventional story telling into true literature. Worth every ounce of effort you expend to summit this one.
by ddek on 12/24/20, 2:57 PM
I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show.
With that mindset, the possibly-underwhelming finale of S1 is much more effective, and the sudden pace-change in S2 is more meaningful.
by DonHopkins on 12/24/20, 1:34 PM
Actual video from the game doesn't qualify as hype! And the code is rock solid and wicked efficient.
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by Dowwie on 12/24/20, 8:36 PM
One park that I visited on a whim was Capitol Reef, in Utah. My plans for several days backcountry camping in Zion fell through because of snow fall late in season. I had to improvise. Hikers are some of the most friendly people and love sharing knowledge on the trail. One suggested I check out Capitol Reef. What a gem! It was far less crowded than Zion and absolutely gorgeous.
See the parks! Camp there! You'll need to plan 6 months in advance for permits to the most popular destinations.
by yabones on 12/24/20, 2:26 PM
Then, boom. Over night AMD leapfrogged Intel, and now on the third generation has a firm lead in mid range desk top all the way up to high end server silicon. Obviously, Intel has major partnerships with most OEMs, so despite their shortcomings they're still doing strong.
Of course, if ARM or RISCV really is the future this is just a blip. Honestly, I don't see x64 going anywhere for at least 15 years - though hope I can look back at this and roll my eyes someday...
by CM30 on 12/24/20, 5:06 PM
But both delivered on that hype. They've both done extremely well in terms of reviews (97% review score average on Metacritic) and sales (best selling games in their respective series), and delivered absolutely magical experiences that made the Nintendo Switch extraordinarily successful in its first year on the market.
by manuelflara on 12/24/20, 2:45 PM
by IkmoIkmo on 12/24/20, 2:07 PM
1) is health data, in a way a computer or phone just can't do. It tracks things like heartrate that a phone + heartrate strap is too convoluted for, for non-athletes. Plus it's all-day and quite accurate. My phone counts my steps in my pocket for example, but not when I'm at home or in the office. My watch can differentiate when I'm cycling to work with my phone in my jacket and detect exercise, whereas my phone may think I'm in a tram or on a motorised scooter.
2) is gamification of exercise. Closing rings, notifications, nudges, vibrations, competitions. It all demands attention and lets you 'jump in' from the wrist much easier, than an app on a phone. It's been a great extrinsic motivational tool to jump-start a change in behaviour for a few months, that can then turn into a long-term intrinsic habit.
3) freedom from the phone. You can open digital locks with the watch, pay with the watch, listen to music or podcasts, get directions on maps, make calls, send (dictated) messages, keep an eye on your mail and calendar etc. I can reliable leave my phone at home, or just leave it in my jacket when I'm visiting friends. Notifications can be set to only allow priority ones in certain settings. It's the first time in 10 years that I'm moving away from having a phone available and in-vision all the time. The Watch doesn't induce mindless scrolling and consumption in a way a phone does, and can be configured to only demand your attention for things you want it to (e.g. certain notifications).
It's definitely not quite where I'd like it to be. Things like battery life, looks, software etc, there's much to gain still. But as a form factor I'm pretty convinced I will be using this for many years to come, and getting upgrades when they become available.
First time series 6 user by the way.
by actf on 12/24/20, 6:06 PM
by cercatrova on 12/24/20, 8:17 PM
My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvising as one goes along;
and also React, especially hooks. Hooks are an incredible mechanism for creating compositional lifecycles, something I've seen only discussed really in this Flutter implementation issue [1], and it should be seen as an amazing contribution to complex tree management systems.
by thekyle on 12/24/20, 8:03 AM
But as more information has come out it seems like the hype has actually increased.
by keiferski on 12/24/20, 7:26 AM
- Most religious books that have stood the test of time have lived up to the hype. The Bible (especially certain books like Ecclesiastes or Proverbs), The Quran, The Upanishads, to name a few. Again, don’t just go in blind, or you’ll walk away thinking none of it makes any sense.
- Lifting weights is indeed worth the hype, and its benefits are more diffuse than just “being able to lift heavy things.”
- In terms of old books that are made into modern sci-fi films, I’ve found Philip K. Dick to be absolutely worth the hype. Don’t think I’ve read a bad story by him.
by apengwin on 12/24/20, 6:41 AM
Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.
by pengstrom on 12/24/20, 2:52 PM
I was really impressed with Jonathan Blow's The Witness. Exquisitely designed and thought out.
The animated series Primal by Genndy Tartakovsky. A pulpy cartoon without dialogue unlike anything else animated from the US.
The tv series Doom Patrol. Clever, revels in the absurd but still manages serious drama on what it means to not be completely human any more.
Philosophy in general. I've always seen it as academic wank, but i couldn't have been more wrong. It gives you the ability to step back in a way that pure science cannot. Excellent tool to learn about yourself too.
On a more controversial note, I was initially put off by critical race theory (talking explicitly about race in academia? Putting blame on the prosperous west?), but I must say it makes a lot of sense.
by evo_9 on 12/24/20, 6:10 PM
by fhood on 12/24/20, 6:01 PM
The "stories" are brilliant, and the way they are told is perfect for the medium. There is an incredible world, that is awe inspiring and fascinating, with deep and expansive lore, and yet it never gets in the way, or suffers from a disconnect with the player. In BoTW the vast majority of my actions make no sense in the context of the plot. In the DS games or BB the world doesn't revolve around my character, so my actions are those of an inhabitant rather than the driver of the plot, and thus my actions don't destroy my suspension of disbelief, despite the freedom given to me, the same way they do in a game like Cyberpunk where my player clearly exists in the separate plane from the one the the world is in.
The music matches the atmosphere and gameplay seamlessly, with very few disconnects. Especially Sekiro, which links its music to the gameplay nearly flawlessly. I won't claim it superior to Undertale, but it still lives in the very upper echelons.
The gameplay is genre defining. I don't think much more needs to be said of it, other than that the difficulty has been grossly misrepresented. My former roommate, who struggled with the tutorial levels of fallout 4 beat Sekiro. These games aren't easy, but they also probably aren't "too hard" for your average player.
And the level design is brilliant, intricate and varied, awe inspiring, and encouraging/requiring exploration without it feeling like a chore (swamps excepted).
Go play these games, jeez.
by holografix on 12/24/20, 2:19 PM
A strange mixture of pleasant, mildly challenging, big and awe inspiring world.
by em500 on 12/24/20, 1:45 PM
Ok, maybe not so much the original 2007 model, arguably it wasn't until the iPhone 4 (2010) until it really came into its own. But few products released in my lifetime changed modern life as the iPhone did. And unlike most other seismic tech products (world-wide-web, linux) that took years to build momentum, it had lots of pre-release hype.
by oefrha on 12/24/20, 2:49 PM
by 101008 on 12/24/20, 1:34 PM
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When the seventh book came out in 2007 there was this fear among the fandom that JK Rowling couldn't deliver a great ending. I think most people agreed she did very well (even more than expected, considering the complexity of the story in the prior six books).
- Breaking Bad last season / last episode: there aren't many tv shows that can end in a high note (check Game of Thrones, for example). I think Breaking Bad - and in general, what separates the best tv shows from great tv shows - is that they are able to have a good ending.
by Shared404 on 12/24/20, 6:49 AM
Another one I can think of is Breath of The Wild, and probably Mario Odyssey. I've also heard good things about the FF7 remake, but haven't played it.
by nostrademons on 12/24/20, 4:51 PM
It was a huge bubble when it came out, and then the dot-com crash came and a lot of people were like "Oh, it was a fad, it's over now." But it wasn't. The Web ended up changing society far more than was predicted in 1995 and remaking both the economy and likely soon the political environment.
by otterpro on 12/24/20, 4:10 PM
MacOSX: As a veteran developer on Windows (and Linux), I really liked how everything worked well in GUI. While I can't explain it all, everything looks and feels intuitive and easier to work with, even little things like the command key, its various keyboard shortcuts, and other UI/UX elements that are very subtle yet makes everything better as a whole.
Next thing on the list of hypes that I plan on trying: * Emacs (and Lisp) * 4k monitor * Docker
by nazgulnarsil on 12/24/20, 7:30 PM
2. Worm. Heavily hyped in my friend circles, I waited for it to finish. Not without its flaws but holy hell, ruined a lot of traditional fiction for me with its length, depth, and quality of ending.
3. As an adult reading the books that childhood movies were based on: The Princess Bride and The Neverending story were both incredibly satisfying books.
4. Therevada Buddhism. Many things in life focus on individual insights. Only a few focus on strengthening the machinery that generates insights. I write about it here: http://neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2020/01/mistrans...
by colanderman on 12/24/20, 3:33 PM
I can't think of a modern equivalent. I guess it would be like if BTS somehow transformed into The Decemberists.
by fumar on 12/24/20, 2:29 PM
by generalk on 12/24/20, 2:51 PM
In 2007 I was plugging away at PHP with whatever frameworks were around at the time -- the vast majority of web dev that I saw then was pure procedural scripting down the page, maybe some `include` statements to pull in database functions. Especially in PHP, which encouraged mixing logic and HTML. The consultancy I was with had built custom stuff on top of Zend framework, and it helped a lot.
But around summer of 2007 is when I started hearing folks crow about Ruby on Rails, this hot new web framework written by a Dane in a Japanese programming language. It had been out for a few years and it was the hot topic in web dev circles, and so I decided to see what the fuss was about one weekend.
Instantly stuff I'd always had to do by hand was done for me. A decent data access layer with a few lines of code per db table, that automatically handled preparing and executing statements, and could handle keeping the database up to date with migrations. A REPL where I could load up the code I'd written for the app and use it for one-off debugging or maintenance tasks. A thriving plugin scene where many of the things I'd bashed together over the years were available, for free, just by cloning a repo.
That weekend I reimplemented the core functionality of one of the apps we'd been working on for a client. We'd taken about 10 weeks to get this thing into rough shape and I had its equivalent in two not-very-busy days. Authentication, authorization, CRUD, and fancy database queries I'd all had to hand-roll before just fell out of Rails.
I'm not overselling it when I say that for me, Rails was an absolute game-changer, and I myself and many folks I know owe their careers to the Ruby community and its (not always perfect) attitudes about software development. MINASWAN.
(I'm still active in Rails and the local Ruby community [Columbus Ruby Brigade!] but I'm running an Elixir/Phoenix shop now, which feels to me like the next step on the path Rails forged us.)
by Kosirich on 12/24/20, 2:50 PM
by neetrain on 12/24/20, 7:48 AM
Maybe OK Computer too, but I don't know how much hype there were because I was too young then...
by jfoutz on 12/24/20, 6:35 AM
Solid state disks. Huge speed boost.
by tomatocracy on 12/24/20, 1:58 PM
by SoSoRoCoCo on 12/24/20, 5:18 PM
Blizzard mentioned development of a MMORG in the late 1990's and started teasing in the early 2000's, and really ramped it up prior to launch.
And when it landed, holy hell: it devastated worker's and student's sleep schedules for years.
Plus it lived up to the hype: the world was huge and immersive, and they had tuned raiding & PvP based on the experience with co-operative Battle.net.
by soneca on 12/24/20, 1:44 PM
by iandanforth on 12/24/20, 4:38 PM
by bhauer on 12/24/20, 4:09 PM
Harry Potter, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Apple Watch, Ruby on Rails, Hamilton.
I'm not saying these things are bad, but the hype level far exceeds the delivered value, in my opinion.
I had to scroll down to things like M1, AMD Zen, and the original iPhone before I felt a sense of agreement. Perhaps I am overly sensitive to hype, so fewer things can possibly measure up for me.
by thebigspacefuck on 12/24/20, 8:11 PM
by podiki on 12/24/20, 5:51 PM
Which brings me to Emacs. Still learning and being amazed at what can be done in there, the more of my computing life in there the better it gets.
by mr_toad on 12/24/20, 10:50 PM
> In the months before Batman's release in June 1989, a popular culture phenomenon known as "Batmania" began. Over $750 million worth of merchandise was sold
by ghoomketu on 12/24/20, 8:22 AM
It was highly anticipated but when it was initially announced everyone including HNers were up in arms about how it's going to kill Vue. I can't find the thread but I do remember it vaguely.
Thankfully the release not only lived up to its hype (faster, smaller, easier) but also put to rest almost all objections about backward compatibility. I really think the Vue team did an awesome job with their next release.
by myth_buster on 12/24/20, 5:43 PM
Drought,unseasonal rainfall, ravaging bwildfires, breaking ice shelfs...
Some reports [0] indicate Oil and Gas knew about it in the early 80s.
by leephillips on 12/24/20, 3:47 PM
Spotify: I resisted for a long time. People laughed at my small bookcase of CDs. But, OK, I’m sold. The premium subscription is the best return on the dollar I’ve seen since Wo Hop’s.
Learning to converse in a foreign language. A lot of work, but very rewarding.
The Avengers: no, not that one. The 1960’s series, specifically (and only) the two seasons with Diana Rigg as Mrs. Peel. It appeared on Amazon and I started watching out of nostalgia, but—wow.
Julia (the programming language). The power of the type system and its version of multiple dispatch lives up to the hype.
by throwaway3699 on 12/24/20, 2:16 PM
Now don't get me wrong, the games ecosystem is still quite limited, but I think Half-Life: Alyx really showed what kind of phenomenal experiences the technology can provide when given a huge budget. If it ever becomes economically viable then there's going to be a ton more experiences like this on the market one day.
Against all odds, these super expensive bulky headsets with only a few games has shipped millions of units to early adopters. Even if it all fails, I'm happy to have been a part of it.
by hertzrat on 12/24/20, 9:12 PM
by jiux on 12/24/20, 5:10 PM
Enjoyable storyline with one of the most unique and satisfying endings. Great option to watch with the kids and it teaches life lessons along the way.
by nanna on 12/24/20, 3:14 PM
by InTheArena on 12/24/20, 3:34 PM
by fsflover on 12/24/20, 3:05 PM
by laserbeam on 12/24/20, 6:56 AM
LotR sequels probably had a lot of hype prior to release.
The latest God of War had a great release afaik.
To be honest, it's hard to remember which things were really hyped up before release and met expectations. I keep thinking of stuff I heard was good after it was release, and things which were hyped and failed, or havr not yet fully delivered on the hype. I can't think of any tech which fits the bill. Maybe raytracing? Most tech tends to be overhyped.
by ystad on 12/24/20, 3:30 PM
Beautiful explained lectures. I can't believe what a great instructor he is. I feel he truly embodies the Feynman learning technique.
by kesor on 12/24/20, 5:14 PM
by gordon_freeman on 12/24/20, 6:21 PM
by muststopmyths on 12/24/20, 4:50 PM
by hanniabu on 12/24/20, 1:53 PM
Still hoping nuclear fusion and carbon removal pulls through.
by afroboy on 12/24/20, 3:00 PM
by YesThatTom2 on 12/24/20, 2:27 PM
Man, when I first read about it I was like “whaaaaa???” A little interpreted language in my print statements? That’s crazy talk!
Now it’s like ... everywhere!
by ekianjo on 12/24/20, 4:31 PM
You have a short memory though. Witcher 3 was also deeply criticized for several aspects when it was just out as well before being recognized as a massive game a few months later. I'd say you should probably wait half a year to evaluate Cyberpunk properly.
by invalidOrTaken on 12/24/20, 3:02 PM
by scop on 12/24/20, 4:41 PM
The Iliad. Hard to put my finger on one thing in particular, but after having finally read it earlier this year I continually find myself doing some task and randomly thinking about it, pausing, and just saying “wow”.
by scudd on 12/24/20, 5:28 PM
I remember when Lakai Fully Flared came out, it felt like a crescendo in skateboarding, and IMO lived up it. The Mike Mo switch kickflip + napalm explosion was seared into my 13 year old brain forever:
by gramakri on 12/24/20, 4:20 PM
by bloopernova on 12/24/20, 3:33 PM
And from my sysadmin experience, the move to devops. Using a language like Puppet or Ansible allowed me to deploy complex software on limited hardware. Terraform lets me apply that knowledge to AWS/Azure/GCP and more.
by SkyPuncher on 12/24/20, 2:45 PM
Just watched it last night and found it to be absolutely incredibly well done.
Dialogue audio was weirdly quiet, but that was solved by cranking the center channel up relative to other channels.
by peteretep on 12/24/20, 4:20 PM
by redshirtrob on 12/24/20, 2:38 PM
For television I think the original "Arrested Development" series was absolutely as good as my friends were telling me. And "The Good Place" deserved every bit of hype it got.
by JamesLeonis on 12/24/20, 5:02 PM
I preordered it in 2003, before the big hack/leak caused Valve to delay release into 2004. Because of the success of the original and the long wait, combined with Valve being almost complete silence during development, there was a huge buildup of hype leading up to the release.
Totally worth it.
by kortex on 12/24/20, 3:39 PM
Rust. It took me a long time to get remotely comfortable, but once it starts to click, it's awesome how the structure guides your development. Worth the investment, but don't expect to be able to grok it immediately.
by sali0 on 12/24/20, 3:13 PM
by meowzero on 12/24/20, 4:28 PM
Functional Programming. I've been doing FP for almost 10 years. I've drank the kool aid. Give me those monads and referential transparency.
by cheschire on 12/24/20, 6:43 AM
by xnx on 12/24/20, 12:24 PM
by greggman3 on 12/24/20, 7:13 PM
by runjake on 12/24/20, 4:52 PM
We take virtualization for granted now but I thought it was smoke and mirrors when it was announced. But nope, it did exactly what it said on the tin.
by offtop5 on 12/24/20, 2:38 PM
It's what React Native wanted to be, but JavaScript has too much baggage
by chasd00 on 12/24/20, 4:43 PM
by nickjj on 12/24/20, 5:33 PM
Docker. After using it with almost every web I've developed since 2015 I think they delivered on what it promised to do. It's not a 100% quality of life improvement since certain things take a bit longer to do vs not using Docker (starting containers have a penalty, installing a new package dependency takes a long time to build since layers aren't diffed for changes, etc.). But overall I've found it very much worth using.
by ant6n on 12/24/20, 3:17 PM
by tezza on 12/24/20, 10:20 PM
Call of Duty I, Quake, Full Metal Furies, Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training DS, Donkey Kong Country Returns Wii
Google Street View, Google Maps
Windows 10
Mac Retina 2012
Zoom
Live Music: The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, James Brown, Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Outkast, Pixies, Bruno Mars (a surprise to me), Harry Connick Jr., Rufus Wainwright, Prince, Billy Joel
Las Vegas... I got married there and it was amazing
Sydney Beaches
Schwarzwald in Southern Germany
Full Moon Party on Koh Pannang
Varkala cliffs in Kerala, India
Jazz @ Harry’s American Bar in Paris
Glastonbury Festival
Tokyo
Millennium Party on Bondi Beach 2000 ( Mobile Home )
by iKevinShah on 12/24/20, 2:15 PM
by throwaway743 on 12/24/20, 5:33 PM
The satisfaction that comes with collaboration and helping one another is where one finds true satisfaction with this game.
It's also just a lot of fun, challenging, and beautiful in general, aside from the story :p
by chubot on 12/24/20, 6:31 PM
https://www.wired.com/insights/2012/05/social-mobile-cloud/
Some people rolled their eyes, maybe including myself at time. (I was never dismissive publicly, but probably didn't pay as much attention as I could have). I would have to say that the buzzword turned out to be pretty accurate: those 3 things largely defined the last decade in terms of software technology, as I see it.
Especially for young people -- there is no world where they don't use some form of social media on their phones (including ones that didn't exist in 2012).
They use cloud applications rather than desktop ones -- that's the "default". Businesses also use cloud infrastructure -- that's the "default".
Lots of money was made in these 3 areas.
by finerundying on 12/24/20, 3:33 PM
1. Coronavirus
The hype
I have a Chinese girlfriend, and when the coronavirus was breaking out in China, she was freaking out, buying masks and so forth. She was really hyping it as a big deal!
Needless to say, it's been a big deal.
2. Election fraud
The hype
Before the election, the President was massively hyping mail-in ballot fraud.
It didn't happen
For those living in the world at large there really was none (dozens of lawsuits were thrown out, the attorney general said there was no evidence.)
But for me it lived up to the hype
But for those living in the President's filter bubble (like me), this election definitely lived up to the hype, and keeps living up to the hype. Those of us in the filter bubble wrongly think we're seeing a massive conspiracy to hide a total of literally hundreds of thousands of fraud ballots across many states in a coordinated collusion. So for me personally (even though I am wrong and living in a filter bubble of proven lies) the voter fraud definitely lived up to the hype!
(I am a conspiracy theorist and everything I believe on this subject had been disproven.)
It is definitely living up to the hype though!
by jerrytsai on 12/25/20, 2:35 PM
I suspect most people who read HN weren't around when this movie came out, but I was around then.
There was tremendous hype -- the excitement that this film generated led to lines of people waiting outside movie theaters just to get their chance to see it. People would watch it and then get back into line to watch it again. I remember hearing of people who watched it 15, 20, 25 times.
Star Wars substantially advanced special effects. If you want to get an idea of what the state of special effects were in that era, watch Star Trek (the original series).
"Star Wars" felt _real_. Lightsabers, the use of a "Force" where you could physically moves things from a distance, the glissando effect when a starship goes into hyperspace-- these were all incredibly credible and mind-blowing to people back then.
Star Wars didn't just live up to its hype-- it has exceeded it, becoming a fixture in American culture, and becoming a franchise that continues to generate interest and income today.
by harrylove on 12/24/20, 5:23 PM
by raldi on 12/24/20, 5:06 PM
by Blikkentrekker on 12/24/20, 10:04 PM
For whatever reason, I only watched it about a year ago despite being inside of the initial hype in secondary school when everyone was talking about it.
I later hard that it was purely shock value from nudity and gore, but it actually had a very coherent plot and very interesting characters, and a tragic serial killer protagonist is always nice, of course.
by brainlessdev on 12/24/20, 4:54 PM
by hertzrat on 12/24/20, 9:08 PM
by misiti3780 on 12/24/20, 5:59 PM
Ken Burns Docs Series - especially Civil War and Vietnam
Nassim Taleb's - Incerto - so much interesting and useful info int those books. Really eye-opening stuff.
Robert Caro's Biographies - I am not finished with all of them yet but the ones I have read are excellent
by lambda_obrien on 12/24/20, 7:51 PM
by indogooner on 12/24/20, 4:34 PM
by goo6 on 12/24/20, 2:55 PM
It's honestly the best fast food item I've ever eaten.
by leetrout on 12/24/20, 2:13 PM
by obblekk on 12/24/20, 3:21 PM
by gcc_programmer on 12/25/20, 12:37 AM
Delayed gratification and hard work.
Doing the right thing, when everyone else is doing the easy thing.
by dstola on 12/24/20, 3:46 PM
by slightwinder on 12/24/20, 4:25 PM
But regarding Cyberpunk, we should be fair. Witcher 3 wasn't the beloved Wircher 3 from today at release either. It had also problems and took it's time to ripe. People forget it.
Similar think happend at No Mans Sky. Released to early, and still grew in a fantastic game after all the shitstorms. Some games just need longer to satisfy the hype.
by princevegeta89 on 12/24/20, 7:06 PM
by gretch on 12/24/20, 6:40 PM
I remember I saw Iron Man 1 in high school and it really felt like it was the beginning of something different. This movie wasn't like the other ones that came out each year...
Of course there were some boring ones in the 22 movie run, but overall I think the final 2 were tremendous and pretty much everyone loved them with very little disappointment.
by runawaybottle on 12/24/20, 2:21 PM
by api on 12/24/20, 5:01 PM
by prawel on 12/24/20, 3:37 PM
by city41 on 12/24/20, 3:23 PM
by riyadparvez on 12/24/20, 3:49 PM
by TehShrike on 12/24/20, 4:51 PM
I was a teen listening to tons of music on MP3 CD players and cheap MP3 players with 64-128MB of flash memory. The 5GB iPod cost about four weeks pay, was so far ahead of any other option. I could almost fit my entire music library onto it!
I was a staunch PC+Windows supporter who thought Apple was dumb. The iPod was the only Apple product I owned, but it was obviously the best music player. There was no competition in my mind.
Unnecessary nostalgia: the original iPod was Firewire only, so I had to buy a PCI card to be able to plug it in to my PC. The first iPod came out before iTunes was ported to Windows, so the official solution for Windows users was MusicMatch Jukebox with a shitty iPod plugin. Eventually I discovered EphPod, an excellent third-party software, which I used for the life of my iPod.
by whywhywhywhy on 12/24/20, 8:36 PM
by PopeDotNinja on 12/24/20, 1:40 PM
by vmurthy on 12/25/20, 12:40 AM
Some (light) reading on the topic :
by kolinko on 12/24/20, 2:56 PM
Apple’s M1 and iPad as well.
Arguably, SpaceX and Tesla.
Also arguably, Facebook. I remember thinking it was overhyped at it’s initial IPO valuation.
Oh, and of course Internet - it was massively hyped up 1996-1999.
by xnx on 12/24/20, 9:33 PM
by canada_dry on 12/24/20, 4:17 PM
Friends raved about it, but I just am not into fantasy genre so ignored it for a few years. When I finally caved, after a few episodes I fell hook-line-and-sinker into what is an incredibly well crafted story about the human condition: greed, lust, loyalty, ambition, betrayal... you name it, it has it all.
What it has in common with other amazing writing (e.g. Breaking Bad) is realistic (i.e. human) responses to incredible situations.
Edit: ^^ excluding the last season and the horrid finale!!
Martin's books are exquisitly well written and the early seasons were a credit to them - not so much once they diverted.
by solresol on 12/25/20, 4:22 AM
I had seen a bunch of other Gaudi buildings, and wasn't all that impressed. The outside of La Sagadra Famailia just seemed tedious.
I went inside and ... words fail me to describe the experience.
by quickthrower2 on 12/24/20, 2:31 PM
by geocrasher on 12/24/20, 5:04 PM
Science: Mars Opportunity Rover, Starship
Music: Nathaniel Rateliff && and the Night Sweats. Incredible.
Electronics/Radio: Arduino, QRP Labs QCX radio kits.
Internet: YouTube. When I first heard about it in the mid-2000's I thought it was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard of. But lately, I've been having more fun with it than ever. Love it or hate it, it's incredible in so many ways. Except the ads. Those suck.
by neverartful on 12/25/20, 3:04 AM
by ekianjo on 12/24/20, 4:29 PM
by timwaagh on 12/25/20, 11:34 AM
I believe cyberpunk will still deliver, actually. These huge single player rpgs tend to have buggy releases and cyberpunk was still worse than others, but five years from now people will still be talking about them and i doubt cyberpunk will be very different.
by lnanek2 on 12/24/20, 5:48 PM
by trebligdivad on 12/24/20, 7:03 PM
by bonestamp2 on 12/24/20, 7:22 PM
Not even the pros, although they're even better in some ways, but just the original AirPods. They don't even sound all that great, but the sound quality was an acceptable compromise for the freedom and convenience that they brought. I used headphones far more often in situations when I didn't normally use headphones because they were so much more convenient to use than any other headphones I've owned.
by hypertexthero on 12/24/20, 11:10 PM
I played the demo for longer than I played whole other games, and I still play the game that was released in 1999 regularly.
In my top five video games ever made.
by CapmCrackaWaka on 12/24/20, 4:27 PM
by nonbirithm on 12/25/20, 12:40 AM
I'm only five chapters in, but so far it's a deeply constructed story with a lot of cultural references woven in seamlessly. Even halfway through there are still more mysteries being hinted at. It also speaks about topics like perception, the purpose of existence and the ego. I hope to finish it soon.
by Torwald on 12/24/20, 4:53 PM
When Apple introduced the iPhone, they told third-party developers to build web apps for the phone, presumably because they hadn't the dev tools ready yet. But everybody wanted to build native apps.
That's the funny thing, Apple didn't create the hype, the eager dev community did. Then the tools and the apps came. The rest is history, as they say.
by BooneJS on 12/24/20, 6:27 PM
by gameswithgo on 12/24/20, 5:07 PM
by golergka on 12/24/20, 4:12 PM
When I first heard alarmists at mid-January 2020, I couldn't have imagined that they would turn out so correct.
by boringg on 12/24/20, 3:24 PM
by atemerev on 12/24/20, 8:12 PM
by willis936 on 12/24/20, 4:28 PM
by bredren on 12/24/20, 6:57 AM
by wolfretcrap on 12/24/20, 1:45 PM
by kyriakos on 12/24/20, 6:53 AM
by butterknife on 12/24/20, 8:40 PM
by neillyons on 12/24/20, 9:24 PM
I would also add to this electric bikes.
by friendlybus on 12/25/20, 7:18 AM
For all it's faults and failings, Duke Nukem Forever worked. In the literal functioning sense.
Cyberpunk is just unfinished. We went from "when's it done" to "burn the customer on a fast release" in a few short decades.
by Waterluvian on 12/24/20, 4:55 PM
The gameplay was okay.
by AirMax98 on 12/24/20, 7:00 PM
by kevas on 12/24/20, 5:38 PM
- IntelliJ
- Toyota having dependable cars.
by ineedasername on 12/25/20, 2:45 AM
Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrel. I heard it hyped on radio and interviews for weeks before I bought a copy, and it was even better than the hype.
Batman Arkham series
by brightball on 12/24/20, 2:09 PM
by dmje on 12/24/20, 8:21 PM
by princevegeta89 on 12/24/20, 9:40 PM
GTA 5, especially, had a lot of hype for a long time and it lived up to every bit of it.
by jredwards on 12/25/20, 12:06 AM
by yread on 12/24/20, 2:36 PM
by the-dude on 12/24/20, 2:19 PM
by g8oz on 12/24/20, 5:36 PM
by timoth3y on 12/24/20, 11:39 PM
It's perhaps the most beautiful thing ever built by anyone.
I've done a fair amount of traveling, and it's easy to get a bit jaded, but the Taj Mahal is every bit as spectacular as you imagine.
by zests on 12/24/20, 3:04 PM
by ronyfadel on 12/24/20, 7:48 PM
by riazrizvi on 12/24/20, 6:56 PM
by mrleiter on 12/24/20, 2:00 PM
by alrs on 12/24/20, 10:39 PM
by derekpankaew on 12/28/20, 2:29 AM
It has completely replaced paper for me. Diagraming, reading, etc. I waited 5 months for the device, and it was definitely worth the wait.
by motohagiography on 12/24/20, 9:46 PM
by le_didil on 12/24/20, 1:58 PM
by andylynch on 12/24/20, 2:52 PM
by Pandabob on 12/24/20, 1:32 PM
by otium on 12/24/20, 5:05 PM
by fartcannon on 12/25/20, 4:15 AM
In my opinion, it is the greatest achievement in modern human history.
by benjaminjosephw on 12/24/20, 2:58 PM
by fivedogit on 12/24/20, 2:56 PM
by glazeshadow on 12/25/20, 10:49 PM
Overdelivered on top of the hype behind the first 2 movies.
The second one was really hard to beat.
by rakah on 12/25/20, 2:52 AM
by simlevesque on 12/24/20, 3:21 PM
by hwestiii on 12/24/20, 8:09 PM
The quantity of invention on display for the 700-however many pages it consumes, is titanic. And the various pastiches that Pynchon pulls off with both accuracy and love are astonishingly numerous. Its like he was daring the world to come up with something he couldn't write and had so far come out on top. The additional pay off for all the work required to consume GR is that it is outrageously funny. Jokes and Broadway numbers performed transparently by the characters, complete with blocking directions straight out of Gene Kelly - Vincent Minnelli musical.
Gravity's Rainbow is one of those ciphers of modern American literature, in which the reality of it, and the cultural parodies it has inspired, like one of my other electrifying reads, IJ, almost perfectly balance. For every proto-hipster than insists that it is to be disregarded for its self indulgence and self-consciousness of pretensions, a serious reader who will stipulate to all of the above, but go on to acknowledge and assert that all the cultural baggage aside, there really is a THERE there.
I think its probably good that Pynchon writes so infrequently, because it prevents him from becoming his own self-parody. There is something remarkable to me about V., GR, Mason & Dixon, and to a lesser extent, ATD. They all exude an empathy with their characters, that is remarkable anywhere. I'm not sure what happened with Vineland, Inherent Vice, or The Bleeding Edge, except to say that though the plot devices and Pynchonian character names, which are frequently even more omnisciently specific than anyone since Dickens, can be entertaining, the characters themselves prompted zero interest or engagement with me. They are as pure a mechanical constructs. I felt with the first group, that it was clear and emotionally satisfying to me when Pynchon demonstrated that he cared for a given character, and it made reading them a transporting experience the first time around. I kept working to get myself emotionally invested in the characters of the second group only to fail for lack of purchase. I recall reading the DFW thought Pynchon a failed genius because he tended to trivialize his own work and never really betray any emotional engagement to the reader. I wonder if he was responding to the same thing I am describing.
Anyway, Gravity's Rainbow, way worth the hype, as well as the effort to complete it.
by davecyen on 12/24/20, 5:05 PM
by foreigner on 12/24/20, 3:49 PM
by EmmEff on 12/24/20, 1:23 PM
by bsenftner on 12/24/20, 1:44 PM
by nitsky on 12/24/20, 4:25 PM
by egypturnash on 12/24/20, 6:16 PM
by mbroncano on 12/24/20, 3:49 PM
by bookofjoe on 12/24/20, 3:11 PM
by ComradeUlyanov on 12/24/20, 5:25 PM
by mikewarot on 12/24/20, 4:43 PM
by muzster on 12/24/20, 9:36 PM
by AVTizzle on 12/24/20, 3:32 PM
by Sxubas on 12/24/20, 9:11 PM
by Const-me on 12/24/20, 3:45 PM
by 1_player on 12/24/20, 2:04 PM
Tool's Fear Inoculum.
The Expanse.
by danicriss on 12/28/20, 10:01 AM
by caogecym on 12/25/20, 5:19 AM
by plaidfuji on 12/24/20, 6:54 PM
He combines thoughtful chords and composition, innovative and quirky showmanship, and deep personal care in mixing, mastering, and general sound crafting. He’s about as original as they come in the electronic scene and probably a major inspiration to the last decade of new artists. His album titles are things like “while(1<2)” and “W:/2016Album/“ and he’s stuck to that theme for as long as I can remember.
by jonas_kgomo on 12/25/20, 12:33 AM
"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. The decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." Guy Debord
This inspired the Matrix, most recently also demonstrated and inspired Black Mirrors episodes, exploring capitalism and participation in hyperreality.
by nesarkvechnep on 12/24/20, 7:52 PM
by elevenoh on 12/24/20, 8:12 PM
by divs1210 on 12/25/20, 10:13 AM
- Empire Strikes Back
- Tumbbad
by ionwake on 12/24/20, 4:45 PM
by InitialBP on 12/24/20, 4:28 PM
by Vanit on 12/24/20, 7:17 AM
by itsbits on 12/24/20, 4:58 PM
by nyadesu on 12/24/20, 1:36 PM
by ragar90 on 12/24/20, 4:25 PM
by georgeplusplus on 12/24/20, 4:36 PM
by greatjack613 on 12/24/20, 7:00 PM
by technics256 on 12/24/20, 1:32 PM
by wyclif on 12/25/20, 1:16 AM
by galkk on 12/25/20, 12:25 AM
Avengers finale
by humaniania on 12/24/20, 5:00 PM
by bobbydreamer on 12/24/20, 5:02 PM
by fctorial on 12/24/20, 7:13 PM
by alangou on 12/24/20, 5:11 PM
by kokiworse on 12/24/20, 3:45 PM
by toufique on 12/24/20, 4:47 PM
by gprasanth on 12/24/20, 2:28 PM
by nso95 on 12/24/20, 9:06 PM
by f6v on 12/24/20, 7:30 PM
by fctorial on 12/24/20, 7:12 PM
by awwstn on 12/24/20, 5:46 PM
by rubiquity on 12/24/20, 4:35 PM
by ak39 on 12/24/20, 3:29 PM
by nsmog767 on 12/24/20, 3:53 PM
by benrapscallion on 12/25/20, 1:51 AM
by jhvkjhk on 12/24/20, 3:24 PM
by b0rsuk on 12/25/20, 12:49 AM
Diablo 2 was hotly anticipated and it did deliver.
by akhilcacharya on 12/24/20, 6:52 AM
by Geminidog on 12/24/20, 5:52 PM
by eplanit on 12/24/20, 3:56 PM
by slumdev on 12/24/20, 4:33 PM
Donald Trump. Love him or hate him, he did actually deliver on many of his promises. Some speculate he followed through because he views relationships as transactional.
by known on 12/25/20, 8:11 AM
by syndacks on 12/24/20, 1:52 PM
The Chronic 2001
Daniel Day Lewis
Halo 2
Richie Hawtin
Aliens
Barack Obama
Freedom (J. Franzen)
by fibers on 12/24/20, 4:09 PM
by nahuel0x on 12/24/20, 2:27 PM
by xwdv on 12/24/20, 1:51 PM
by avipars on 12/24/20, 2:32 PM